![]() ![]() I don’t know a dime about Modern Art history or French Post-impressionist painting, but on a random occasion, I’ve ran into Paul Gauguin’s biography, and his disturbingly direct quote remained fresh in my mind. What a cruel practical joke old Nature played when she flung so many contradictory elements together, and left the man face to face with the perplexing callousness of the universe." ![]() He could exercise tact when dealing with the affairs of others, but none when dealing with his own. He had a sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering a real feeling for what was beautiful and the capacity to create only what was commonplace a peculiar delicacy of sentiment and gross manners. Dirk Stroeve had the passion of Romeo in the body of Sir Toby Belch. "It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul. ![]()
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